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H. EMANUEL.

Y POMMEL GOAT. No. 329,299. Lljatentd-Oot. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY EMANUEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD OILED CLOTHING 00., OF SAME PLACE.

POMMEL-COAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,299, dated October 27, 1885.

Application liled June 19, 1885. Serial No. 169,198. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY EMANUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pommel-Ooats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a coat for horsemens use, water-proof or otherwise, which shall be capable of extension to cover the pommel and cantle of the saddle, and protect both the person and the seat of the rider from wet, cold, or wind, and adapted, also, to be readily contracted as to the dimension of the skirt, to convert it into a coat suitable for use when out of the saddle or walking.

My invention consists in the novel features set forth in the following description and definitely pointed out in the claims annexed to this specification.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a view showing the garment in front elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing manner of contracting the skirt to convert the coat from a riding into a walking coat.

In the said drawings, the reference-numeral 1 designates the body of the coat, having a marginal row of buttons, 2, upon one flap, extending from the throat-piece to any suitable point below the same, and covered by a storm-flap, 3, of the usual construction, the opposite flap being provided with button-holes 4, which receive the buttons 2. The skirt of the coat is made very full, so that when the front is closed and fastened by the said buttons 2 it is sufficiently capacious to be drawn over the pommel in front and to fully cover the cantle of the saddle behind the rider, as is usual in pommel-coats, as well as to extend down upon the sides for a suitable distance and give the necessary protection to the thighs. Upon the front of the coat, upon the same side with the buttons 2, is arranged a second row of buttons, 5, which, beginning with the upper button, diverge downwardly upon the front of the coat from the series 2, the arrangement being such that by disengaging the latter buttons the flap may be lapped over and the buttonholes attached to the buttons 5. In this manner the amplitude of the skirt will be contracted sufficiently to adapt it for use when out of the saddle, the angle of divergence of the two rows of buttons being such as to give the necessary contraction. The garment is in other respects not essentially different from the pommel-coats heretofore in usesuch, for example, as those shown in Letters Patent No. 317,812, granted May 12, 1885, to M. S. Lorschbeing provided with shields at the shoulders and having an inner contracting wrist-piece with an outer storm-flap surrounding the same.

I have shown the coat made of two pieces of cloth united by a central seam behind, the pieces forming the body being cut bias to give the necessary fullness to the skirt. It may be made of three pieces united by seams upon the two sides, and I prefer the method last named; but it is evident it may be made in either manner without departing from my invention.

The pommel-coat need not be an oiled coat, but may be made of duck or any other suitable material.

WVhat I claim is- 1. In a pommel-coat having an expanded skirt adapted to cover the pommel and cantle of the saddle, two series of buttons attached to one of the flaps and diverging downwardly, the other flap being provided with a corresponding series of marginal button holes, whereby the skirt may be adapted to use in or out of the saddle, substantially as described.

2. In a pommel-eoat having an expanded skirt adapted to cover the pommel and cantle of the saddle, a marginal series of buttons attached to one flap, a second series of buttons diverging from the upper button of the mar ginal series downward and attached to the same side, and a series of button-holes formed in the margin of the opposite flap and adapted to engage with either of the series of buttons, substantially as described.

3. A pommel-coat having an expanded skirt adapted to cover the pomniel and cantle of In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY EMANUEL.

Witnesses:

S. VAN ZANDT, S. K. OSBORN. 

